Re: Rapid re-boot (Windows or Linux)

larwe wrote:

Just to be sure we're talking about the same thing: If I didn't
misunderstand, you are trying to include a fixed system state to use
instead of the normal boot process. This frozen system snapshot will
fall over spectacularly (corrupt the filesystem and die) if the
filesystem changes from the way it was WHEN THE SNAPSHOT WAS TAKEN.
Special measures need to be taken to prevent this.


No, the idea is that the thing goes into this state immediately before it powers down, then reloads it when powered up. There's no power on to change the disk inbetween. If the image is corrupt, just a normal boot would be fine. It's only to save a few minutes (it's a slow 600M processor) at boot.

Hibernation in W2K lets you put the machine to sleep nicely and wake
it up without doing a full reboot. It does NOT let you start the
machine quickly after a power failure.

Linux's STD feature - with a little jiggery-pokery - can be made to do
a "fast start" of the type you require, although it's quite messy.


I might well end up moving to Linux of some flavour anyway. Not one of the lighter OSs, because I need the GUI and network stuff without too much advanced cookery, but I suppose it won't be long before Vista means that my devices (hammed with an ancient driver system called DriverAgent, a sort of expanded GIVEIO) won't work.

Though I do wish Linuces came with an easy installer. And what is the Linux STD feature? Is it the same as the security tool http://s-t-d.org/tools.html, or something else?

Paul Burke
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